Why AI Can't Forget: The GDPR Problem with Large Language Models | S1 E8

In this episode of the Privacy Impact Shop brought to you by blackfootuk.com and gdpr.ie, Ben and Shaab are joined by PR technology expert Samantha Deeks to explore a fundamental challenge emerging at the intersection of AI and privacy law. The conversation centres around Samantha's revealing experiment with Claude AI, where she discovered the large language model had incorrect information about her company's co-founder—and more troubling still, admitted it couldn't "unlearn" this misinformation even when corrected.

This discovery exposes a core architectural problem: neural networks, designed to replicate human thought  ...